France was a major source of capital for interwar Poland, providing funds for mili- tary matériel, key infrastructural investments, as well as for industry. On the other hand, France pursued an imperialist policy towards ...

Łazor, Jerzy(The European Association for Banking and Financial History, 2013)

Palestine was a major destination for migrating Jews in the interwar period, with around 40 per cent of all newcomers coming from Poland. Palestine’s fast economic growth was the result of a large import of capital brought ...

In the paper, Polish transformational experiences of the last 25 years have been compared with the course of changes in other states of the region. In the case of the change of GDP per capita the Polish outcome, apart from ...

The change of Poland’s political system in 1989 and introduction of the market economy
created a new situation on the labour market. In the first period of transformation, there
was a rapid fall in the number of working ...

After 1989 the Polish telecommunications sphere changed radically for technological rea- sons and due to the market transformation. In the sphere of telephony, first, there was a rapid increase in the number of landline ...

In this paper I examine traces of radiophobia in gossips as the manifestation of culture in the shadow of an atomic bomb. This study aims to recognize main social functions of this kind of folktales. The field of research ...

The article follows the evolving migration policy of interwar Poland. It posits that through- out the entire period the state tried to increase the number of emigrants from Poland, and restrict the number of immigrants. ...